“Isn’t This The Reverse Of How A Transfer Works” – Fresh Twist On Media Favourite

Tottenham Hotspur have long been linked with a January move for Paris-Saint Germain midfielder Adrien Rabiot and the bare bones of the latest piece of speculation to be guffed out of the French press offers nothing new in reality – other than an incredibly new perspective.

Outlet La Parisien have now claimed, in effect, that all the previous coverage surrounding Spurs’ tracking of the 23-year-old international has been absolute nonsense, simply put because we have not identified him as a target for business in the New Year.

Instead, PSG have now identified us as a possible destination.

There’s no reason given why that I can see from a quick translation so I can only assume their Sporting Director has by chance stumbled over the almost weekly rumours saying we were interested and had contacted them over the player going back to – who knows how many summers’ ago – and he had a lightbulb moment as they apparently want to offload him.

Now, it’s certainly not unknown for clubs to ‘offer’ other clubs the opportunity to express an interest as a way of making deals happen and there are a number of logical reasons as to why that would happen but when you stumble across claims like this it’s no wonder there’s a mistrust of the media.

It’s inventive as a fresh angle granted, but I wouldn’t call it intelligent or clever.